A Treatise On Coast-Defence: Based On the Experience Gained By Officers of the Corps of Engineers of the Army of the Confederate States
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This committee, composed of Captains Thornton, A. Jenkins and James Alden, of Commander William E. Le Roy, and Chief Engineer T. Williamson, report, under date of August 13th, 1864 — " The injuries to the casemate of the Tennessee from shot are very considerable. On its after-side nearly all the plating is started; one bolt driven in; several nuts knocked off" inside ; gun-carriage of the after pivot-gun damaged, and the steering rod or chain cut .near that gun. There are unmistakable marks on ...the after part of the case- mate of not less than nine 11 -inch solid shot having struck within the space of a few square feet in the immediate vicinity of that port. On the port side of. the casemate the armour is also badly damaged from shot. On that side, nearly amidships of the casemate, and between the two broadside guns, a 15-inch solid shot knocked a hole through the armour and backingy leaving on the inside an undetached mass of oak and pine splinters, about three by four feet, and projecting inside of the casemate about two feet from the side.
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